What would you like to see as an enhancement or customization? Many of you have great ideas that you email one or all of the members of PDS but to be honest its hard to keep track of them all. This is a place for you to make you suggestions and to discuss them.
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Test Scores
I would like to be able to create a object report that will show all test scores. I called and you can only show first, last, best etc.
I would like to be able to see all
Test Scores
We had to build a custom screen to put in Test scores. We select the group of students then go to functions and go to list then we select the EOI or tests that we want and submit. It lists them students and the tests with the alpha scores.
Variable Credit
Alternative Education REALLY needs variable credit in the PowerTeacher Gradebook. Our student population is so transient that we need to modify the amount of credit received for almost every class enrollment. Ideally variable credit would be available in the new Gradebook. If not, does anyone have a PowerTeacher Portal solution? Karina Gallie
customize PowerTeacher attendance page
Is it possible to customize the attendance page in PowerTeacher to include any or all alerts for a student? It gives a teacher an immediate notification. Typically a teacher in district takes attendance and then immediately launches the gradebook. If they could see the alerts with out having to click on individual students in PowerTeacher, it would be helpful.
Re: customize PowerTeacher attendance page
Check out http://powerdatasolutions.org/content/alert-list-v-311
Parent Reports
Hello
I would like for parents to be able to print out a report card / or a report that will show on one page the grade and comment for a particular term.
Is this possible?
Currently we print them out and mail them to the family.
Second question:
when we do a query and need to select multiple field for the export we can choose the field but we need to click the field one by one...
It would be nice to have a check box by all of the fields to make a multiple selection!
Thank you
Display associated School ID to Report in the Report Queue
Currently, when we run multiple Reports the Report Queue does not identify the school name or school id associated to be report you ran in the Report Queue. It would be great that in addition to date, time, job name, ended time and status, the school ID of the report you ran would display in the Report Queue.
Re: Display associated School ID to Report in the Report Queue
That's a great idea. I was able to modify http://powerdatasolutions.org/content/refresh-report-queue-v-232 to include the School abbreviation where the report was run. Thanks for the suggestion.
Not able to download
Hi Brian,
When I went to download the update to the report queue It was not able to find it. Can you email me? Or repost? Thanks.
rrijo@natomas.k12.ca.us
Re: Not able to download
Use the link on the right under recent customizations.
Cumulative Attendance for Teachers
On the teacher classattendance page, my teachers would love to see total cumulative period absences YTD in a column next to each student's name. This would allow them to see, at a glance, which students are in danger of NC'ing (receiving No Credit) a class.
My apologies if this has already been suggested or exists in one of your customizations I haven't tried yet.
student list
I would like the ability to save student list report formats so I don't have to key them in each time. Like the stored search, have a stored list.
Max B
Data Applications Specialist
Colonial Beach, VA
re: student list
Check out http://nicktech.org/ps/list-students-auto-loader
Admin Progress Reports
I would like to see a report for the admin portal that would allow our offices to print progress reports that include student assignment information for students that are at or below a certain final grade percentage for the term.
Dashboard
My administrators would like to have a test dashboard, Is that even possible?
Fees Reports & Imports
Would love to see the Fees reports and Fee Transaction reports to include further breakdown by course number/name and then activity type.
Then to make life even easier (ha!) a template to import the payment data exported from RevTrak into PS fee transactions.
List all enrollments (reenrollments table)
Our alternative education district needs to see a list of all the enter dates and exit dates (usually several a year) of a student. This would include enters and exits to the Juvenile Hall school in our district. I know it's in the reenrollments table but don't know how to get it out.... Any thoughts? Thank you. Karina Gallie
Determine Publish Date for Comments
From one of our teachers:
I would love it if PowerSchool would give us more control over comments. We can postpone publishing grades by post-dating the entries; we can exempt an individual grade or an entire column of grades. Couldn’t they give us an option under the Comments on whether or not to publish the comment? This flexibility would make it easy for me to keep a record of minor student issues that may eventually add up to a pattern without triggering an excessive and premature parental response.
PT Guardian Email List
I would love for my teachers to have access to a Mass Class Email list like the one for staff under the Admin login.
There's one on the PowerSource website as a Customization but it doesn't work in 6.x. It shouldn't be too hard... I just haven't figured it out yet.
Student Daily Attendance suitable for DSS hearings
Never mind. I have found a solution to this particular problem. If anyone is interested in a solution, feel free to write.
- John
I'd like the students daily attendance to appear in a Date, Code, Comment format, from the student Academics sub-menu.
The reason is, the current daily student attendance isn't something we can bring to legal proceedings without spending time explaining the document.
--- The remainder was removed by the original author because the problem no longer exists......
Student Daily Attendance suitable for DSS hearings
Hi John,
We would love to know the solution for this. Thanks!!
Low Current Grades Report modification
Add the Student_Number to the report.
We would like to us this report to generate a file for our automated phone system program.
It will only dial out by keying off of the Student_Number not last name, etc.
This was the one created my Matt Freund
Announcement Feeds
It would be nice to have RSS feeds for our publicly accessible PS daily announcements pages so we can port them to other systems or feed them to other web pages or parent's feed readers. For example, PS is our central repository for all daily announcements. We would like to cycle them over our CCTV system. If there was an RSS feed available on the daily announcements page for our High School, we could use a feed reader on the broadcasting PC and configure it to cycle the articles. Lots of possibilities, and no authentication mechanism necessary since our announcements are configured to be publicly accessible.
Snap snap snap
Feeds - you betcha. PowerSchool is a really bad public facing website (which is good, because that's not what its purpose is). There is as a result, however, much painful duplication of effort as we try (mostly without success) to make information public that is locked down behind a PowerSchool login. Test and assignment schedules are a big one. The daily announcements less important (if you're running a public-facing website, you can easily skip using PowerSchool for this function).
re: Snap snap snap
Bulletins items can be seen without a login if you open that page up in the district/miscellaneous page. The users would go to (or you can link from you website to) http://[server IP or hostname]/bulletin/[school number]/
See PowerSource document 6969 for more information on that.
That being said, I like the idea of rss feeds inside the system as long as they can be completely controlled as to what can go where. It'd be nice if we could add them as options for parents, teachers and admins to sign up for (as long as the security said they could).
Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org
Unless you know about a secure RSS feed...
[Edited because I initially misinterpreted what you were saying...]
Yes - the feeds would be configured by and be at the discretion of a sufficiently privileged PowerSchool user. But clearly the feeds, themselves, would not be behind any security.
Version Numbers of Customizations
Terry L. Schanbacher
Technology Director
Regional School District 6
Litchfield, CT
It would be helpful if the name of the customization and version number would appear in PowerSchool on the page where they are executed. Managing custom pages would be a lot easier if you could see the source, name and version number in PowerSchool.
Printing All Teachers' Schedules
Several of my secretaries have asked for a report where they can print ALL teachers' schedules rather than one at a time. They would like to see something similar to the Student Schedule Report under Group Functions. If something like that already exists and you can point me in the right direction, I would be most appreciative.
Thanks.
Lynne
I'm looking for this too!
I'm looking for this too!
Interested!!
We are interested in this as well!
Discipline Report including Gender, Ethnicity and Grade
We use this one monthly...total number of, for example caucasian females by action taken. I haven't been able to figure out how to get a count, yet.
Kathy Davies
System Information Manager
Lamar County Schools, Ga.
Verification Update
What you have done with the verifications is great!! One improvement could be to have it so when you click on "teacher schedules" from the main page the list of teachers would highlight and teachers who have grades that do not match. That way office staff could quickly scan the list rather than having to open each one.
Thanks for all you do!
Test Page
I would like to see a page that shows all test a student has taken. I know we are limited by size but we could maybe do a page for test that college's look at like the ACT, SAT, PSAT, ISTEP, End of Course Assessments and then another page for School related test, one for District related and so on. Maybe there is all ready one out there, if so would you want to share it?
Modify comments on verification.html page
Just thought it would be nice for teachers to be able to add/edit comments from the verification.html page in v3 verification package.
Doug
last grade update
I would like to see a report that shows when a last score was entered. From what I can tell the reports I have seen show the last time something was done in the gradebook, whether it be a score entered or an assignment. My administrators want to know the date when the last score was entered. Any help would be really appreciated.
All Enrollmnents
I would love two features on the all enrollments page:
The ability to just view the current year (Roger made something similar for the log entry)
The term and section id to show...so we could see if it is a dropped class.
Thanks. Sandy
missing attendance
An update to Missing Attendance Report V 3.0 would be nice to allow viewing of previous days. Also "a report that showed each teacher and how many times they forgot to take attendance."
re: Missing attendance
Version 3.1 has been released and addresses the issue of checking different dates.
Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org
It would be great to
It would be great to actually be able to specify a date range. That is what one of my administrators has been asking for. And perhaps even a count?
Missing Attendance Date Range
In our alternative education environment, attendance taking is something that the administrators wish for, instead of expect! It would be very very helpful if this report can be made to display missed attendance for a date range.
An alternative would be to display the green dot along the top of the Monthly Attendance Review. Then the teachers could see for themselves which dates they forgot to take attendance.
Thank you for all you do. Karina
re: Missing Attendance Date Range
I've already got that planned. I've also planned on some other tweaks as well.
Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org
Security Settings for pages
It would be nice to have an interactive page-security page that shows the page vs group, and allows changing the security setting in one matrix. It would be fine to have the number code as the input for group, view etc to keep things smaller. There was a nice report that shows this, but you still have to go to each page to change the settings. If you use this feature, it gets hard to keep track of what is what. Thank you to the original report engine author, that does help a lot.
Not a high priority, something that happens once or twice a year to review. But when you do it, there is a lot of clicking involved with the standard issue.
Thank you all for the wonderful work.
personalized comment bank
One feature that we loved in PowerGrade but doesn't seem to appear in the web-based version is the ability for a teacher to create his or her own comment bank that they can use to enter comments for report cards.
Teachers are also requesting the ability to add private comments that they can only view.
Admin Progress Reports
I would love to see a progress report that lists students grade, attendance, and assignments for each section that can be printed out from the Admin portal.
Brad Sanders
Admin Progress Report
We are in need of something like this also. Teachers have the Student Multi Section Report. It would be helpful if Administrators had the ability to print that report too or a report just like it.
backup 5.2.1
What is the best way to manually backup Preimer 5.2.1 that is running on a 10.4.11 server. If I shutdown PowerSchool what files should I copy to an external drive?
Teacher Schedule layed out with Term 1 and T,Th or M-F but not A
Jacqueline J. M. Brzezinski
The High School liked seeing the matrix schedule, but made me take if off because they need to see,
T,Th or M-F and not A-F or A,C or whatever Days not periods.
Also, I really don't expect this, seeing more than the term they are using is not useful to her.
Would rather compromise the matrix view, much loved for the previous version.
I am loosing track of the associations, which report is which. What I normally do, is create one complete CD of this stuff and put on the server CD Drive after I test it out.
Then copy and paste.
Update for Verification Pages
Is anyone going to Update the Verification package to reflect the significant changes in the Standard pages in 5.2.0.x?
Update for Verification Pages
Yes, it's on my list for the next few updates. I had to do everything else first because everything else is used before verifications. For example we needed attendance reports day 1, we don't need to verify grades until 5 week reports.
Jason Treadwell
Custom Solutions Specialist
jason@powerdatasolutions.org
www.powerdatasolutions.org